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Interview with Midgard
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Interview by Jay Parker
Hi, this is Jay here with Midgard from the amazing old school legends, OUIJA, from Spain. 1) Tell us about Ouija. Where and when was the band formed? Who are the members of the band? The band was born in 1994, after the disappearance of Levial, our first band we decided to form Ouija, since we had other musical concerns at that time different from Levial and we thought it would be better to start from scratch with a new project. After several months of rehearsing, we recorded our first demo which did not even see the light of day, because we were quick-
ly signed by Repulse Records for the edition of our first album “Riding into the funeral paths”. After a few years of inactivity for different personal reasons, in 2009 the band regrouped and we recorded the EP “Adversary”, which
founding members of Ouija and JM 101 on the other guitar, to consolidate the band, Labelua also joined our ranks on drums and Shogoth on bass to close the circle. More or less that would be an abbreviated bio, I sincerely hate the bios because I think it bores people to read them, but as is obvious it is a procedure that has to be done in many interviews... hahaha... 2) What was the inspiration behind forming the band? As I have already mentioned in the next question, we began to be influenced, we are going to call it that by the first wave of Black Metal,
ere h w s e tim n i ils e v We li ality is what preva superfici d. a e d e r a s l and idea would be followed by our album “Ave voluptatis carnis” released in 2013. After another stop in time, the band In 2020, Map and I first joined the
